By drawing on social science perspectives, this course enables you to learn what diversity is, and how to use it to maximize team performance, innovation and creativity. You also learn how to draw out the collective wisdom of diverse teams, handle conflict and establish common ground rules through real-world cases and peer-to-peer discussions. In addition, you discover how to overcome common biases faced in diverse teams. Systems of power, reward and rhetoric are discussed to help you create prosperous teams where differences flourish.

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Learning about micro-aggressions changed my life - personally and professio

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Right on topic for the issues I'm seeing in the workplace

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Team Diversity Basics

In the first module, you will learn the essentials of why diversity matters for teams, and why it can be difficult to build diverse teams. We will overview basic concepts of difference, bias, and conflict that will serve as a foundation for later modules.

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Dr. Aviva Legatt

Affiliated Faculty

Derek Newberry, Ph.D.

Lecturer

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Do you have an example of a company that you worked with in the US or abroad or that you know about that's doing an especially good job with enhancing diversity and inclusion on teams? >> I would say two, one is a for-profit organization and one is a non-profit organization. There's a company here in the United States called Barry-Wehmiller, and they're based out of Saint Louis. And the CEO and the Chairman of the company has a book called Everybody Matters. And this book talks about how the people are at the core of any organization, particularly in business. And it really goes to the revelation of how he came to recognize this, coming as a CPA working his way up through the organization. And how at the very core, all of the things that we talked about as far as culture integration, understanding what's important, family, bringing that to the center of the company. Then over time, the profits and the performance, all of those things come out. So I've spent a lot of time not only reading the book, but actually, in Saint Louis with the author. And it's practiced throughout the organization. So you can see that throughout the organization and online. And then, there's an organization that I'm actually working with now called GlobalMindED. And GlobalMindED is actually a non-profit organization that's a conference that brings together all of the stakeholders in education and has a direct intention about diversity and inclusion and access for students. So we bring together students, faculty. We bring together business leaders, bankers, politicians to all talk about the fundamental issues that are effecting diversity and inclusion. And then, how we can start to build local teams to actually implement some of the challenges that we are talking about at the conference. One of the things is we bring all the stakeholders together. From the first conference, the first thing that came out was well, so what do we do with this conversation? So the students has actually put together kind of an incubator, if you will, where they actually have a start-up pitch about ways to do this at a local school. And so what they were able to do was actually take that model, go back to University of Colorado Denver. I'm going back to the University of Colorado Boulder and say here are some of the challenges that we see with advising, right? Our advisors may not necessarily look or come from the same place or have the same cultural context as we do. But that's not the most important part is that the questions are not being asked. So coming up with a list of questions that can be universals to ask about particular interests of students, why are you here and what you may want to do after you graduate? That's just one example, a simple example but works and it's scalable, right? But and everybody was a part of being integrated in that. So that everyone had a vested interest.